wrote:
Hello,
I have a 24 foot I/O and I am wondering if this would be capable
of travelling from Miami to the Bahamas. The boat holds 68 gallons of
gas which should be enough, but I am thinking it might just be too
small to handle the voyage.

Anybody with experience or opinions about making the voyage on a 24
footer?

You can do it on a good day. I read an article about
some guys who made the run in a 24' pontoon boat a
week or two ago - I can't find the article though.

Here's a resource for you.

http://www.vantagepointguides.com/ho...ore_bimini.htm

JimH wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
m...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Don White" wrote in message
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"Don White" wrote in message
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"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
news OK, but what is the origin of the name "Bimini"? Was it named after
the boat tops, or is it the other way around? And, what's a "Scotia"?

In my usual style, I'll answer the 2nd part of your question.
Scotia = latin for Scotland
that is... Nova Scotia is latin for New Scotland.

Sheriff John can answer the 1st part.
On second thought, he's probably too busy runnin' around facilitating.
Bimini (Bi-mini), meaning, Mother of Many Waters, Bibi (Mother) and Mini
(Waters), is a term and name in the Taino Native American Indian
language of the Caribbean islands and is the original Pre-Columbian
Taino Arawak name for the present day U.S. state of Florida.

Busy Tainos. They lived in Puerto Rico, too.
Did you know that the Vikings discovered Puerto Rico?

Explains a lot.

Friggn kittens did:

http://www.public.asu.edu/~mharp/vik...kingKitten.htm

Good lord - is that thing still around? :)

One of the original Flash movies if I remember right.

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:07:54 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:08:21 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Do you feel so broke up - you want to go home?

Only if I can sail there on the sloop John B

Hmmm - there has to be a sloop out there named John B.

Just has to be.

http://tinyurl.com/27t8l5
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***** Have a super day! *****

John H

wrote:
Hello,
I have a 24 foot I/O and I am wondering if this would be capable
of travelling from Miami to the Bahamas. The boat holds 68 gallons of
gas which should be enough, but I am thinking it might just be too
small to handle the voyage.

Anybody with experience or opinions about making the voyage on a 24
footer?

thanks,
daniel


I've read some good responses but you didn't say which island you want
to visit. Bimini IS the closest to Miami and I have been there with my
20' center console - once. We were fishing out of Port Everglades and
not finding any dolphin. I found Bimini on my GPS and we were about 45
miles away and the seas were flat. I have two VHF radios and an EPIRB
so we decided to go. We made it in less than two hours but didn't check
in since the fees are so high and we weren't staying, or fishing, in
Bahamian waters. We were prepared to leave the boat and fly back if the
weather changed but we were lucky and made it back without a problem.

I have a four stroke OB and used about 30 gallons for the round trip
including the fishing/trolling time out of Ft. Lauderdale. Your boat
will likely use more since it's larger and heavier.

Most people in smaller boats make the trip with another boat. This has
also been a tough winter on the Atlantic. 8'-10's in the gulfstream has
been the norm with all of the fronts we've had in the last three months.
You can't plan a trip like that with a small boat. You can only go on
a "perfect" day.

If you were considering Grand Bahama (Freeport) or New Providence
(Nassau), forget it. They are too far from Miami with your rig or
anything under about 40'.

Dan

On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:40:46 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:


"JimH" wrote in message
ups.com...
On Feb 9, 3:15 pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
"Don White" wrote in message

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What are you getting bent out of shape for? It seems you might not be
seeing all the messages that everyone else sees. Including this one,
there are 25.
Just a polite way to tell Sheriff John Henry that his own business
needs
tendin' to!

I agree that 99% of the time, he's a complete pain in the ass*

I would adjust that up another 1%. ;-)


I think Doug was just trying to be charitible....


He knows better than that. Now, you and JimH get busy on some reading
comprehension drills.
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***** Have a super day! *****

John H

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
m...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Don White" wrote in message
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"Don White" wrote in message
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"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
news OK, but what is the origin of the name "Bimini"? Was it named after
the boat tops, or is it the other way around? And, what's a "Scotia"?

In my usual style, I'll answer the 2nd part of your question.
Scotia = latin for Scotland
that is... Nova Scotia is latin for New Scotland.

Sheriff John can answer the 1st part.
On second thought, he's probably too busy runnin' around facilitating.
Bimini (Bi-mini), meaning, Mother of Many Waters, Bibi (Mother) and Mini
(Waters), is a term and name in the Taino Native American Indian
language of the Caribbean islands and is the original Pre-Columbian
Taino Arawak name for the present day U.S. state of Florida.


Busy Tainos. They lived in Puerto Rico, too.

Did you know that the Vikings discovered Puerto Rico?

Explains a lot.

Plantains?

I think fuel is not a big issue here as the 50-60 miles for a crossing should
not exhaust the supply. There is an option to carry some extry jerry cans of
fuel aboard.
Once in the Bahamas, fuel is readily available as long as you bring enough cash
or
plastic. I took my 22 foot sailboat on several trips from the Florida Keys to
the
Abacos and from Jamaica all the way up the island chain. I mainly worried about

the Gulf Stream. Once in the Bahamas, there are plenty of sheltered harbors to
wait
out the bad weather. I was once stuck in Little Harbor, Abaco for three weeks
until
the seas went down, mainly because there are no harbors south of there in Abaco
until you reach the Berries or the West side of Abaco, and it's a rough rocky
unfriendly coastline, until you round the south tip of Abaco.

If you pick your weather and have patience, there is no reason why you can't go
anywhere in the Bahamas.

Sherwin D.

wrote:

Hello,
I have a 24 foot I/O and I am wondering if this would be capable
of travelling from Miami to the Bahamas. The boat holds 68 gallons of
gas which should be enough, but I am thinking it might just be too
small to handle the voyage.

Anybody with experience or opinions about making the voyage on a 24
footer?

thanks,
daniel

thanks everyone for the comments. i will hopefully be making the trip
in june, probably first to bimini to try it out, most likely in a
'boat fling' with another boat.

regards,
daniel

wrote:

thanks everyone for the comments. i will hopefully be making the trip
in june, probably first to bimini to try it out, most likely in a
'boat fling' with another boat.

regards,
daniel


That should be a better time to make the trip than now. It's been rough
for the past two months - rough winter with all of the cold fronts.

Dan

On Feb 9, 8:25 am, "Don White" wrote:
"Mike" wrote in message

. net...

The boat holds 68 gallons of
gas which should be enough

The word 'should' in that sentence would probably scare me away from
trying it. I suppose you could bring extra fuel along.

--Mike

Too bad Skipper isn't still around. He could advise how to lash numerous
jerry cans of fuel to the deck.


Well, Don, I did that on the back of my old 27' Chris craft. made a
holder and put 5 jerries right on the swim platform. But I never tried
going to the bahamas, I was running up and down the Illinios river. I
had two 50 gal tanks on board, and then the 25. the cans were to be
used as "reserve"